OUR VISION

Cryptocurrency in Every Wallet™

At Crypto.com, we are on a mission to accelerate the world's transition to cryptocurrency.

Meet our advisory board

Antoine Blondeau

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Antoine Blondeau is Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, a global venture capital fund focused on deep Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technology companies. Antoine has 25 years of experience in the technology industry, having held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce.com and Sybase. Antoine’s career highlights include founding Sentient Technologies, as well as leading Dejima as CEO, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that later evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also COO of Zi Corporation, whose smart text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices.

Rob Bier

Organisation Design & Scaling

Rob Bier is Founder and Managing Partner of Trellis Asia, helping entrepreneurs develop high-performing teams and build hyperscaling organizations. Rob also serves as the non-executive chairman of MoneySmart. Rob began his business career at Monitor Group, where he rose to Senior Partner and head of their London office. He co-founded antfactory, one of Europe’s first digital venture capital firms, and founded and led SPARCK. After the acquisition by Citigroup, Rob became an Operating Partner at TowerBrook Capital Partners, a US$10b private equity Firm.

Chien-Liang Chou

Engineering

Chien-Liang Chou is VP, Engineering at Flexport- a high growth startup. Prior to Flexport, he led LendingClub’s investor and platform groups, handling $20B’s worth of asset transactions between borrowers and investors. Before LendingClub, he built and led all aspects of engineering at LOYAL3, an investment banking and IPO platform. Prior to that, he ran the application architecture committee at Salesforce for the CRM and call center product lines, where he was granted multiple patents and played an integral role in the company’s M&A activities.

Chris Corrado

Trading Technology

Chris Corrado is Group Chief Operating Officer and Group Chief Information Officer of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Prior to this, he was a Managing Director at MSCI, responsible for technology, data services and program management, CIO/CTO, since 2013. Chris has held a variety of senior CTO roles in leading banks, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. He has also worked for high growth technology companies such as eBay as CTO and AT&T Wireless as CIO.

Huey Lin

Operations

Huey Lin is COO of Affirm which offers services that empower consumers to advance their financial well-being. Affirm was founded by Max Levchin and is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing fintech startups, having raised over US$500m. As COO, Huey is responsible for all aspects of operations and scaling the company. Prior to Affirm, Huey spent nearly 12 years at PayPal in several key roles, including director of international risk policy & strategy and senior director of Asia-Pacific operations. She played an instrumental role in helping PayPal expand in Europe, meet critical global compliance requirements and was one of the first product managers.

Dimitri Tsamados

Talent

Dimitri Tsamados is Partner at Eric Salmon & Partners, a leadership advisory and executive search firm. Drawing from over 20 years of experience in Asia and a long history of working with high growth companies Dimitri advises technology players across Asia. Before joining Eric Salmon & Partners, Dimitri was a founding partner of DTCA and a partner at CTPartners. He also founded Amhurst Gordon International, a search firm which he grew across East Asia and sold in 2005.

Meet our team

Kris Marszalek

CEO

Seasoned company builder based in Hong Kong, 2x from $0 to $100m in revenue and 2 exits. CEO at Ensogo, Founder at BEECRAZY (sold for US$21mm to iBuy Group in 2013).

Rafael Melo

CFO

15 years’ experience in finance, deep understanding of risk, compliance and Mobile Payments ecosystem in Asia. Led fundraising efforts as CFO at ASX-listed Ensogo, securing strategic investment from VIPSHOP (NYSE:VIPS) and raising over A$50m from blue chip institutions like Fidelity, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

Gary Or

CTO

Hacker, Product Designer, Entrepreneur, 9 years of full stack engineering experience (RoR, Elixir, Golang), keen interest in Machine Learning and AI.

Bobby Bao

Head of Corporate Development

Extensive experience in investment banking, corporate development, investor relations. Head of Corp. Development at Ensogo, investment banker at China Renaissance (华兴), Deloitte, Merrill Lynch. While at China Renaissance he worked on landmark deals, including merger of Didi and Kuaidi (now Didi Chuxing) as well as Strategic Corporate Development Projects for JD.com (Nasdaq: JD)

Brent Diehl

SVP, International Expansion

20 years of experience in international payments, including MD of Alliance Payment Solutions, a payments consultancy; head of Visa’s AP-CEMEA prepaid consultancy division; Western Union, where he led international expansion efforts for prepaid cards; and Home Depot, where he was responsible for its international card portfolios.

Erald Ghoos

COO

Previously Chief Operating Officer at Payreto, offering payment solutions to financial institutions. Leadership roles in operations at Funding Circle, AXA Bank, Equa Bank, and Paysafe.

Sean Rach

CMO

Former CMO at Prudential Corporation Asia. Led the regional American Express account at Ogilvy, launched the Cathay Pacific AMEX card, and served as MD of OgilvyOne Hong Kong (clients: AMEX, Western Union, BlackRock, SmarTone,and IBM).

Weiyi Zhang

Platform Architect

Formerly Vice President, Quantitative Trading at AP Capital Management in Hong Kong, Weiyi led the development of an algorithmic trading platform and managed the Asian market arbitrage portfolio. Prior to that, Weiyi was Vice President of Electronic Market Making at JP Morgan, where he led volatility trading strategy and arbitrage strategy development in the automated market making business; and Quantitative Trading Strategist of Equity Derivative Trading at Deutsche Bank.

Eric Anziani

CSO

12 years of experience in strategy, partnerships and innovation in Financial Services, Retail and Technology. Previously at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and PayPal in London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo. Most recently, Eric led the Strategy team at Global Fashion Group and drove significant cross-regional strategic programs across its 24 markets with over 9000 employees.

Jason Lau

CISO

Jason is a multiple award winning cybersecurity professional, including the, “Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professional Award” and “Financial Technologist of the Year (Data Privacy)“. Jason was formerly regional Cyber Security Advisor at Microsoft, with over 16 years of experience holding executive roles, advising international clients such as Credit Suisse, Falcon Private Bank, ETH Zurich, Swiss Air Force, Royal Bank of Scotland, Social Security Administration and many more. Jason has completed Executive Programs at both Stanford and Harvard, and holds a double degree, Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of WA. Jason also holds certifications such as, CISSP, CIPP/E, CIPM, CGEIT, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CEH, CDNA, CSM, ITIL as well as being on ISACA’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Global Working Group, an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), and Regional Leader and Co-Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Hong Kong Chapter.

Maggie Ng

SVP, Head of Marketing

Passionate for driving new channels, product and partnership innovation. Maggie possesses valuable skills from her previous positions as Head of Direct Marketing and Direct to Consumer for FWD Insurance in Thailand and Director of Digital Media for Prudential Corporation Asia at its regional headquarters.

Cerulean Hu

Lead Blockchain Engineer

Former lead engineer at Equichain, implemented blockchain solutions at FINCOVA, and led finance and trading systems development at ANX. Prior to that, she was responsible for developing trading algorithms at HSBC.

Ivan Stefanov

SVP, Risk Management

With more than 11 years of experience in risk management in the online payments ecosystem. At Skrill and NETELLER, he managed teams across multiple markets enhancing fraud prevention and payments setup. Ivan also cofounded NOTOLYTIX, an innovative data processing startup that caters to all aspects of risk management.

Matthew Chan

SVP, Head of Technology & Security

Matthew brings with him over 14 years of experience as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. A former CTO of a multinational enterprise software company focused on monitoring, cybersecurity and compliance, he led the organization to win multiple back-to-back industry awards. He is also a former CIO of a multi-strategy asset management company regulated by the HK SFC, and has experience advising international clients such as Baker McKenzie, RBS, Credit Suisse and Honda.

Kasim Zorlu

SVP, Head of Growth

A former VP of Performance Marketing at Rovio Entertainment (maker of Angry Birds and Bad Piggies), Kasim joins Crypto.com with over 11 years experience at leading online gaming companies. His experiences span from building customer acquisition and retention teams, adjusting tech stacks, to scaling user bases and bringing incremental revenue growth. He is a recognized thought leader in the areas of data driven user acquisition, engagement and retention.

Values

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Think Clearly

Clarity of thought is the single most important trait we look for in our colleagues.

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Be Resourceful

We believe that great ideas can come from anywhere, regardless of seniority and experience.

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Stay Determined

We celebrate milestones together, we recharge and we get back to it.

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Dream Big & Be Decisive

We aim to surprise and inspire with quality and speed of decision making.

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Act As Owners

We're trusted to do the right thing.

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Remain Humble

We understand that we're always stronger as a team - you leave your ego at the door.

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Milestones

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November 2018

Crypto.com Chain Blockchain and Token (CRO) Announced

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October 2018

MCO Visa Cards ship in Asia

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October 2018

Crypto Invest goes live

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July 2018

Launched 3 new MCO Visa Card colours

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July 2018

Monaco is rebranded to Crypto.com

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May 2018

Marketing campaign started

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May 2018

MCO Token lockup enabled

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May 2018

Global Cryptocurrency App Release

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April 2018

MCO Token listed on Bithumb, leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchange

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January 2018

Announced Credit and Invest products on CNBC

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December 2017

Launched listings on 9 additional cryptocurrency exchanges (Total 17)

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December 2017

Four key hires announced (COO, CCSO, CMO, Platform Architect)

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November 2017

Partnership with Gemalto to produce metal cards

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October 2017

Visa Program Manager approval launched

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August 2017

Pre-registration apps go live & full card portfolio announced

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August 2017

Listed on Binance, China's fastest growing digital asset exchange

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July 2017

Listed on Bittrex, the largest digital asset exchange by volume (globally)

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June 2017

Raised US$26.7m, placing MCO in top 10 token sale events of 2017

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May 2017

Launched token sale

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April 2017

Graduated from SuperCharger, Demo Day at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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February 2017

Accepted into Hong Kong government-backed Cyberport Incubation Program

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November 2016

Accepted into the SuperCharger, Asia's leading FinTech Accelerator

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October 2016

Built prototype

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September 2016

Secured card issuing capability

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June 2016

Founded Monaco

Press

Bittrex Lists Crypto.com Chain Token (CRO) Ahead of Go-Live Next Week

8 March 2019

Bittrex Lists Crypto.com Chain Token (CRO) Ahead of Go-Live Next Week
Crypto.com Hires Former Rovio Executive to Drive Customer Acquisition and Platform Growth

7 March 2019

Crypto.com Hires Former Rovio Executive to Drive Customer Acquisition and Platform Growth
Ledger to Accept Payments With Crypto.com Pay

25 January 2019

Ledger to Accept Payments With Crypto.com Pay
Ledger to Accept Payments With Crypto.com Pay

19 December 2018

Ledger to Accept Payments With Crypto.com Pay
Crypto.com Hires Former PayPal and Braintree Leader Tyson Hackwood

11 December 2018

Crypto.com Hires Former PayPal and Braintree Leader Tyson Hackwood
Metropolitan Commercial Bank to Issue MCO Visa Cards in the United States

16 November 2018

Metropolitan Commercial Bank to Issue MCO Visa Cards in the United States
MCO Visa Cards to Begin Shipping in Singapore

19 October 2018

MCO Visa Cards to Begin Shipping in Singapore
Ripple's XRP Added to Crypto.com's Wallet & Card App

3 October 2018

Ripple's XRP Added to Crypto.com's Wallet & Card App
Crypto.com Announces Advisory Board

26 September 2018

Crypto.com Announces Advisory Board
CRYPTO.com Strengthens Leadership Team With Three Key Hires

16 August 2018

CRYPTO.com Strengthens Leadership Team With Three Key Hires
CRYPTO.com Welcomes Litecoin to the MCO Cryptocurrency Platform

1 August 2018

CRYPTO.com Welcomes Litecoin to the MCO Cryptocurrency Platform
CRYPTO.com's MCO Launches Platinum Referral Rewards and Crypto Wallet Cashback

23 July 2018

CRYPTO.com's MCO Launches Platinum Referral Rewards and Crypto Wallet Cashback
CRYPTO.com's MCO Unveils New Visa Card Portfolio and MCO Private, a Bespoke Cryptocurrency Concierge

6 July 2018

CRYPTO.com's MCO Unveils New Visa Card Portfolio and MCO Private, a Bespoke Cryptocurrency Concierge
Monaco Rebrands as CRYPTO.com to Accelerate the World's Transition to Cryptocurrency

6 July 2018

Monaco Rebrands as CRYPTO.com to Accelerate the World's Transition to Cryptocurrency
Monaco Hires Former Square Chief Compliance Officer Stanley Lam

May 31st, 2018

Monaco Hires Former Square Chief Compliance Officer Stanley Lam
Monaco Launches Wallet App To Bring Cryptocurrency To Every Wallet

May 16th, 2018

Monaco Launches Wallet App To Bring Cryptocurrency To Every Wallet
Monaco MCO Token to List on Bithumb

April 19th, 2018

Monaco MCO Token to List on Bithumb
Monaco Co-founder Bobby Bao Named in the 2018 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 List

March 27th, 2018

Monaco Co-founder Bobby Bao Named in the 2018 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 List
Monaco and GOPAX Announce Partnership Plans at Money20/20 Asia

March 15th, 2018

Monaco and GOPAX Announce Partnership Plans at Money20/20 Asia
Monaco Joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

March 14th, 2018

Monaco Joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Monaco Begins Closed Beta Testing for Wallet App, Reveals Details of Investment and Credit Products

March 12th, 2018

Monaco Begins Closed Beta Testing for Wallet App, Reveals Details of Investment and Credit Products
Monaco Sponsors 2018 Money20/20 Asia in Singapore

January 17th 2018

Monaco Sponsors 2018 Money20/20 Asia in Singapore
Monaco Adds LoungeKey™ Airport Lounge Access

December 20th 2017

Monaco Adds LoungeKey™ Airport Lounge Access
Monaco Strengthens Management Team with Four Key Hires

December 19th 2017

Monaco Strengthens Management Team with Four Key Hires
3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges to List Monaco MCO Token on December 15th

December 14th 2017

3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges to List Monaco MCO Token on December 15th
Monaco MCO Token to Be Listed on Four Cryptocurrency Exchanges on December 5

December 4th 2017

Monaco MCO Token to Be Listed on Four Cryptocurrency Exchanges on December 5
Monaco Selects Gemalto's Innovative Metal Card to Bring Power of Cryptocurrency to Every Wallet

November 14th, 2017

Monaco Selects Gemalto's Innovative Metal Card to Bring Power of Cryptocurrency to Every Wallet
Monaco Visa card Program Receives Green Light

October 31st 2017

Monaco Visa card Program Receives Green Light
Cryptocurrency Payments Platform Monaco Announces Brent Diehl as SVP of International Expansion

October 10th 2017

Cryptocurrency Payments Platform Monaco Announces Brent Diehl as SVP of International Expansion
Monaco Launches Mobile App to Bring Cryptocurrencies to Every Wallet

August 31st 2017

Monaco Launches Mobile App to Bring Cryptocurrencies to Every Wallet
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